Maayan Armelin received her PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and holds a master's degree in social psychology from the University of Haifa. She is currently an Associate Scholar at the University of Notre Dame at Tantur, Jerusalem. Armelin integrates historical methods with insights from social psychology to examine the perpetrators of the Holocaust and comparative cases of genocide. Her work focuses on group dynamics, examining how organizational hierarchies, professional backgrounds, and operational demands shape peer and command relations, fostering participation in mass violence.